8: Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died

8: Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs. Though dinosaur extinction probably took weeks or months, in just one day, 425 feet of material accumulated where the asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs. The blast ignited trees and plants for thousands of miles -- which were quickly extinguished by mega tsunamis with waves that may have reached as far inland as Illinois. And at the low-end estimate of 10.1 on the Richter scale, the subsequent earthquake would have been more powerful than anything ever measured or experienced by humans. And then things got worse. Let's find out why. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewhyfiles/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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599: Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers

599: Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers

In 1968, six-year-old Andrew Basiago stepped through Tesla's teleportation device and emerged at Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863. He was part of Project Pegasus, DARPA's classified progra...

24 Kesä 202553min

598: Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences (STRIPPED)

598: Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences (STRIPPED)

Ever think about someone you haven't spoken to in years, then they call you? You're not imagining things.Carl Jung called these meaningful coincidences "synchronicities," and believed they reveal some...

16 Kesä 202533min

597: Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin (STRIPPED)

597: Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin (STRIPPED)

Evidence suggests a massive world called Maldek once existed between Mars and Jupiter. This planet had a large moon that orbited it for millions of years—a moon with oceans, atmosphere, and possibly e...

6 Kesä 202541min

596: The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)

596: The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)

Something extraordinary happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago. In just a few thousand generations, our brains nearly doubled in size - a change that should have taken millions of years.Scienti...

31 Touko 202532min

595: Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Extinction Event (STRIPPED)

595: Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Extinction Event (STRIPPED)

Two miles below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered something impossible: rocks that generate electricity and produce oxygen without sunlight. These ancient metallic "batteries" could be the...

23 Touko 202524min

594: The Midnight Game | When Ancient Shadows Come To Play (STRIPPED)

594: The Midnight Game | When Ancient Shadows Come To Play (STRIPPED)

The Midnight Game begins with a drop of blood, a candle, and 22 knocks at the stroke of midnight. What follows is an ancient pagan ritual reborn in the digital age – a deadly game of hide and seek wit...

21 Touko 202528min

593: Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here all Along (STRIPPED)

593: Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here all Along (STRIPPED)

What would you do if you felt eyes watching you, turned around, and saw a seven-foot insect-like creature? Since 2006, people fishing along the Musconetcong River in New Jersey have reported encounter...

14 Touko 202526min

592: Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery (STRIPPED)

592: Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery (STRIPPED)

Thousands of years ago, ancient cultures across Europe built massive stone structures with extraordinary precision. Scottish engineer Alexander Thom discovered these sites all used the same exact unit...

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